Compare 1587 edition: 1 The Pictiſh Ambaſſadours returning home with this anſwere,The Pictes purpoſe to be reuenged on the Brytaines by open war. cauſed the whole Nation to take ſuch diſdaine therewith, that immediately they reſolued to reuenge their wrongs, by open warres: but firſt they thought good to trie if they might procure the Scottiſh mẽ to take part with thẽ in reuenge of ſuch iniuries as they had in like maner lately receiued at y^e Britains hãds.The Picts ſo|licite both Scottes and Saxons to make warre vpon the Bry|taynes. More|ouer, repenting themſelues, that they had in times paſt ayded the Brytaynes againſt the Saxons, they purpoſe to trie if they might now moue the ſame Saxons eftſoones to make warres vpon the Brytains, thereby to be the better able to main|taine their owne quarell againſt them.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Firſt ſuche Ambaſſadors as were ſent from Mordred vnto Eugenius king of the Scottes,Eugenius the Scottiſh king agreeable to the requeſt of the Pictes. found him very agreeable vnto their requeſts, and the ſooner, for that ſuch Scottiſh rebels as fledde vnto Arthure, were not onely receyued by him, but alſo mainteyned to make rodes and incurſi|ons into the Scottiſh borders.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Arthur hauing knowledge of the deuiſes of his enimies (the warres being firſt proclaymed) hee furniſhed all the ſea coaſts with notable numbers of men, to withſtand the landing of the Saxons, if they ſhould fortune to attempt any inuaſion.Arthure ſet|teth forwarde towarde the Scottes and Pictes. That done, he paſſed forth with the reſidue of his people towarde the Scottes and Pictes, who were alreadie aſſembled in campe, and were come [figure appears here on page 133] as farre as the Ryuer of Humber,Humber a fa|tall place for the Brytaynes to be vanqui|ſhed at. neare to the bankes whereof they had pitched their tents, as in a place fatall for the Brytaynes to be vanqui|ſhed in.